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  1. AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn (seuros.com)
    ×5.68 85 | 181 points by berlianta 4 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GitHub Actions was down (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.63 64 #66 | 637 points by cebert 6 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty (theguptalog.blogspot.com)
    ×1.76 57 | 87 points by tjek 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd (osnews.com)
    ×4.28 53 | 84 points by birdculture 8 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care (dw.com)
    ×5.07 81 | 41 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (pluralistic.net)
    ×5.44 49 | 61 points by doener 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×1.66 42 | 131 points by widenrun 12 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.20 27 | 556 points by elorant 1 day ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Sweden becomes a smoke-free country (thelocal.se)
    ×2.34 40 #55 | 36 points by Teever 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The User Is Visibly Frustrated (pscanf.com)
    ×2.03 21 #58 | 221 points by croes 13 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Magnifica Humanitas (vatican.va)
    ×6.36 18 #45 | 1553 points by theletterf 1 day ago | 879 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)
    ×3.38 19 #44 | 338 points by Cider9986 13 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (tomshardware.com)
    ×5.37 16 #39 | 1020 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. DoomBench – Can Your Data Stack Run Doom? (cedardb.com)
    ×2.63 44 | 5 points by SchwKatze 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A Board Game Agent Built Using Sanity Context and Vercel's AI SDK (sanity.io)
    ×3.55 47 | 5 points by crabasa 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.71 17 #74 | 37 points by joozio 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify' (theverge.com)
    ×4.80 15 #32 | 208 points by berlianta 7 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Rise of the AI Script Kiddie
    ×3.95 55 | 5 points by erminpour 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2k a Month to Masturbate (decrypt.co)
    ×2.63 20 #46 | 22 points by ajay-d 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99% (xiaomimimo.com)
    ×3.90 61 | 5 points by gainsurier 27 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Does anybody like React? (jsx.lol)
    ×2.69 11 #61 | 221 points by brazukadev 15 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Xiaomi Mimo-v2.5 pricing is now permanently reduced (twitter.com/XiaomiMiMo)
    ×3.02 48 | 4 points by ammar_x 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes (kadoa.com)
    ×1.24 21 | 4 points by hubraumhugo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Don't Subscribe So Casually (thebestworstcase.substack.com)
    ×1.06 14 #23 | 76 points by shmublu 2 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few (religionnews.com)
    ×5.07 9 | 341 points by benwerd 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month (eualternative.eu)
    ×3.59 8 | 222 points by sparkling 23 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union (reuters.com)
    ×4.15 14 #15 | 156 points by onemoresoop 1 hour ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. SpaceX to drive a Cybertruck through corporate governance norms (ft.com)
    ×2.18 32 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI (wiert.me)
    ×2.28 29 | 3 points by geerlingguy 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. AI may fuel US business creation, but few signs of similar trend in Canada (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×2.13 23 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. What the Hantavirus Story Reveals About Medical Mistrust (undark.org)
    ×2.18 22 | 3 points by speckx 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Booz Allen Hamilton Conducts Fraud Against the Government (google.com)
    ×2.10 35 | 3 points by cochranblock 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (politico.eu)
    ×4.25 8 #13 | 366 points by vrganj 6 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How Xerox invented the GUI and watched Apple and Microsoft win (generationamiga.com)
    ×2.14 20 | 3 points by ibobev 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. You Can Start Building LLM Skills Before You Know the Whole Shape (sosuke.com)
    ×2.31 25 | 3 points by sosuke 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Leave Me Behind (androidessence.com)
    ×3.59 6 | 345 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Google, I Dump Your Ass (jaredwhite.com)
    ×2.82 13 #42 | 10 points by abnercoimbre 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player (intelligenceonline.com)
    ×1.03 9 #31 | 30 points by alephnerd 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately (theregister.com)
    ×2.82 56 | 4 points by Bender 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Fake ChatGPT installers on GitHub are dropping Deno RATs (vechron.com)
    ×2.20 17 | 3 points by GeorgeWoff25 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive (theguardian.com)
    ×2.63 10 #22 | 23 points by coffeeyesplease 1 hour ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Reviving older hardware into a minimally viable homelab (james.network)
    ×1.84 11 | 3 points by kitlop 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.05 3 | 58 points by pretext 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The real cost of owning a home (ericturner.dev)
    ×3.49 5 #12 | 46 points by ggcr 1 hour ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (reuters.com)
    ×5.96 3 #6 | 335 points by thm 4 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (promptarmor.com)
    ×2.15 2 #65 | 254 points by Kneenex 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Eternal Sloptember (geohot.github.io)
    ×6.23 1 | 475 points by razin 1 day ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs (signalbloom.ai)
    ×1.68 1 #17 | 130 points by GodelNumbering 5 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???